I am afraid that I was credulous. We were perhaps willing to believe and wanted to believe what we were told. We knew that it was right for the UK not to come within such matters in the EU so that we did not gradually integrate into a superstate or a federal united states of Europe. Many are still worried about that and we wanted to avoid it, and we thought the pillars were the answer.
European Union Bill
Proceeding contribution from
James Clappison
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 26 January 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on European Union Bill.
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